Our Directors
Malaria Consortium is governed by a Board of Trustees, which takes the major strategic decisions for the organisation. Day-to-day operational decision- making is delegated to the Executive Director, who, with the Global Management Group, runs the organisation. The Global Management Group consists of five Directors with responsibilities for overseeing and managing the technical, management and finance functions, as well as programmes at regional and county level.
The Malaria Consortium Directors are:
Sunil Mehra - Executive Director
Sunil Mehra is the Executive Director of Malaria Consortium and brings over 25 years of experience of working with USAID, DFID and other donor programmes and projects. Currently, the Executive Director at Malaria Consortium, Sunil is recognised for strategic planning and programme development in areas of maternal health, child health, community development and communications. He has worked in over 20 countries in East and South Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Sunil specialises in leading cross-cultural teams; development, management and monitoring and evaluation; design and implementation of marketing and communications strategies; institutional development; human resource development including competency-based and problem-based methodologies.
Dr Sylvia Meek - Technical Director
Dr Sylvia Meek is the Technical Director of Malaria Consortium. For nine years she was the Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine based Malaria Consortium (DFID Resource Centre for Malaria Control). Her work includes technical advice especially on programme design, management and evaluation and technical leadership and strategy development of Malaria Consortium. She is also part of the Roll Back Malaria Working Group on Case Management. Overall she has 25 years work on malaria control and was previously with WHO in Solomon Islands, Namibia and Cambodia and with World Food Programme and UNDP setting up and running vector- borne disease control programmes for 200,000 refugees. Dr Meek has an MA in Zoology, an MSc in Animal Parasitology, and a PhD in mosquito genetics and control (filariasis vectors).
Jocelyn Boughton - Chief Finance Officer
Jocelyn Boughton is the Chief Financial Officer of Malaria Consortium. Jocelyn joined Malaria Consortium in 2009 from Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales, an organisation giving grants to local charities, where she was Director of Finance and Administration. Prior to this she completed three years as a Management Advisor based in Nepal with an HIV/AIDS NGO. Before moving into the not-for-profit sector she worked in the commercial and retail sector in a number of different roles including Operations Director, Finance Director, Financial Controller, Project Manager and Group Financial Accountant. Jocelyn qualified as a chartered accountant (ICAEW) in 1988 with Arthur Young – now part of Ernest and Young.
Caroline Vanderick - Africa Programmes Director
Caroline Vanderick is the Africa Programmes Director, overseeing Malaria Consortium’s programmes implementation on the African continent. She brings a high level of management experience to the organisation having herself led large and very complex projects in difficult environments. Born in Africa, Caroline started her career in the development sector in Africa immediately after completing her business degree in Brussels, driven to see rapid improvement in health indicators through strengthened local management capacity. In the 16 years since the start of that journey, Caroline has spent time in various countries, with three long term postings in Burundi, Liberia and Nigeria. She is now based in Kampala and puts all her positive energy and experience in health services planning, financing and management into ensuring that Malaria Consortium remains a reliable and efficient implementation partner as it grows.
Sunil Mehra is the Executive Director of Malaria Consortium and brings over 25 years of experience of working with USAID, DFID and other donor programmes and projects. Currently, the Executive Director at Malaria Consortium, Sunil is recognised for strategic planning and programme development in areas of maternal health, child health, community development and communications. He has worked in over 20 countries in East and South Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Sunil specialises in leading cross-cultural teams; development, management and monitoring and evaluation; design and implementation of marketing and communications strategies; institutional development; human resource development including competency-based and problem-based methodologies.
Dr Sylvia Meek - Technical Director
Dr Sylvia Meek is the Technical Director of Malaria Consortium. For nine years she was the Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine based Malaria Consortium (DFID Resource Centre for Malaria Control). Her work includes technical advice especially on programme design, management and evaluation and technical leadership and strategy development of Malaria Consortium. She is also part of the Roll Back Malaria Working Group on Case Management. Overall she has 25 years work on malaria control and was previously with WHO in Solomon Islands, Namibia and Cambodia and with World Food Programme and UNDP setting up and running vector- borne disease control programmes for 200,000 refugees. Dr Meek has an MA in Zoology, an MSc in Animal Parasitology, and a PhD in mosquito genetics and control (filariasis vectors).
Jocelyn Boughton - Chief Finance Officer
Jocelyn Boughton is the Chief Financial Officer of Malaria Consortium. Jocelyn joined Malaria Consortium in 2009 from Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales, an organisation giving grants to local charities, where she was Director of Finance and Administration. Prior to this she completed three years as a Management Advisor based in Nepal with an HIV/AIDS NGO. Before moving into the not-for-profit sector she worked in the commercial and retail sector in a number of different roles including Operations Director, Finance Director, Financial Controller, Project Manager and Group Financial Accountant. Jocelyn qualified as a chartered accountant (ICAEW) in 1988 with Arthur Young – now part of Ernest and Young.
Caroline Vanderick - Africa Programmes Director
Caroline Vanderick is the Africa Programmes Director, overseeing Malaria Consortium’s programmes implementation on the African continent. She brings a high level of management experience to the organisation having herself led large and very complex projects in difficult environments. Born in Africa, Caroline started her career in the development sector in Africa immediately after completing her business degree in Brussels, driven to see rapid improvement in health indicators through strengthened local management capacity. In the 16 years since the start of that journey, Caroline has spent time in various countries, with three long term postings in Burundi, Liberia and Nigeria. She is now based in Kampala and puts all her positive energy and experience in health services planning, financing and management into ensuring that Malaria Consortium remains a reliable and efficient implementation partner as it grows.
David Sintasath, PhD is an epidemiologist serving as Malaria Consortium Asia Technical Director based in Bangkok, Thailand. David oversees the surveillance, monitoring and evaluation, and operational research programmes for Malaria Consortium in the Greater Mekong Subregion and helps to develop and guide the strategic and technical direction for the organization in the region. In addition, David leads the Malaria Consortium Asia Regional team to provide technical support for monitoring and evaluation of the strategy to contain artemisinin resistance in Southeast Asia. Previously, David served as resident malaria advisor in Eritrea to assist the National Malaria Control Programme in conducting epidemiologic research, strengthening surveillance networks, operational research, and information management systems. David holds an MSc from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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